At 08:54 PM 1/26/00 -0700, Patrick O Neil wrote:
>I have three harddrives:
>hda is a 8GB
>hdb is a 4GB
>hdc is a 3GB
>
>hda is partitions thusly:
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 1 109 875511 b Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda2 110 141 257040 83 Linux
>/dev/hda3 142 1027 7116795 5 Extended
>/dev/hda5 142 269 1028128+ 83 Linux
>/dev/hda6 270 512 1951866 83 Linux
>/dev/hda7 513 1027 4136706 83 Linux
>
>hda1 is empty right now...awaiting the time when I get
>around to reinstalling windoze. I installed RH 6.1 and
>selected to load lilo in the master boot record, which it
>did (apparently) without error. Problem is, it doesn't
>work. I bootup and get this message:
>
>Not found any [active partition] HDD
>Boot from CDROM: failure
>
>I have my bios set to boot in this order: C, CDROM, A.
>The only way I can bootup linux is via a bootdisk
>in A:
>
>No likey. Me want to to boot off the harddrive. I
>thought I was careful to keep linux completely within
>1024 cylinders - it is between 110 and 141 with
>the drive set for LBA.
>
>Why doesn't it work? Previously, I had windoze installed
>on the first 800MB and linux on the following partions
>(same drive). Now I only given the (future) windoze
>50 more MB in the first primary. Other than that, the
>only difference from before is that I had only 1 primary
>partition, hda1, and linux installed on hda5 in an
>extended logical. It now is in its own primary partition.
>
>Is it that lilo/linux doesn't like the first partition
>being empty? Is it that lilo/linux doesn't like being
>on the second primary (yet STILL below 1024 cylinders)?
>
>What do I need to do to fix this?
>
>patrick
>
Your BIOS is complaining because none of your partitions is
marked as bootable. (active) Boot from a floppy, run fdisk,
and make the second partition bootable. (The a option from
Linux fdisk. Or use cfdisk and select the [boot] option after
you hilight the partition you want to boot from. You can also
use fdisk from DOS and set a partition bootable. It probably
doesn't make any difference what partition you mark as bootable,
as LILO doesn't use this flag.
Mikkel
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